Eight strangers wake up in a forest, some more battered and cold than others. They soon realise that they are part of a sick game for a live audience, and despite what looks like a winner-takes-all scenario, some must fight together if any of them are to make it out alive. These types of stories... Continue Reading →
Novels that have a house as one of their main settings need to avoid the trap of cliches. It's easy to say that, but with countless stories starting off well, only for them to fade away due to cliches, it needs to be said. Tim Meyer's The Switch House, as you can tell, deals with... Continue Reading →
It's always going tricky when a house, be it haunted or not, is the main setting of the story. This is because it's been done countless times, and the author needs to be very clever in how they approach the way the story is told. The main concern is that it can be easy to... Continue Reading →
John F.D. Taff is a Bram Stoker Award®-Nominated author with more than 30 years experience, 90+ short stories and five novels in print. His first fiction collection, Little Deaths, was named the best horror collection of 2012 by HorrorTalk. Jack Ketchum called his novella collection, The End in All Beginnings, “one of the best novella... Continue Reading →
Ah, you can't beat a good, old-fashioned ghost story. Not the one where the ghost is terrorising a house, but one where it has a purpose. And that's what Hope and Walker is -- a story with a purpose. Em's father owns a funeral parlour where she grows a fascination with talking to and drawing... Continue Reading →
Darren Shan is the author of the 12 book series, Zom-B, the 10 part series The Demonata, and the bestselling series Cirque du Freak (known over in this side of the pond as The Saga of Darren Shan), for which he became a big name in the publishing industry in 2000. His books have sold... Continue Reading →
THE winners of the 2017 Bram Stokers Awards, presented by the Horror Writers Association, have been announced, with a ceremony taking place at this year's StokerCon. You can check out the winners and runners-up below: Superior Achievement in a Novel: Winner: Golden, Christopher – Ararat (St. Martin’s Press) King, Stephen and King, Owen – Sleeping... Continue Reading →
The Horror Club talks to writer, Catherine Bell, about her work, The Children of Manson, which is available via ebook. She also dicusses her influences, the genre and more. Tell us about yourself? I have a huge passion for writing; specifically horror. I absolutely love what you can do with that genre in terms of... Continue Reading →
The Horror Club will be running a competition across our social media channels (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), giving you the chance to win a copy of Mr Mercedes by Stephen King. The competition will run from 9 am, on Monday, the 18th (Irish time since we are Irish based) until 11:59pm, on Wednesday, the 20th.... Continue Reading →
The Horror Writers Association have announced the short list for the 2017 Bram Stoker Awards®, with the presentation of winners due to take place at the third annual StokerCon™, which will be held between March 1st - 4th at the historic Biltmore Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. The award is named after the author, Bram Stoker, famed... Continue Reading →
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